Dare I? The Crossover That Must Not Be Written!

Posted on 2006.08.17 at 19:44

So... Harry Potter.

Really falls in the well-known genre of high-school comedy/drama, right?

Now, when I was a younger man, there was another High-School Comedy, with dramatic overtones, that I hated to admit I was thoroughly hooked on. Primarily because a couple of the leads were really hot, although I hasten to add that both, when they'd suck it up and do the work, were quite good actresses.

Now, timelines would have to be thrown out the window, of course, to make this series from the early '80s cross over with Harry and his pals.

And, other than that hoary old chestnut, "The American Exchange Students," it's hard to imagine how to make a plot that would cover both.

But there's something about the concept of the rich, snobbish, snotty, but essentially good-hearted Hot Girl putting Draco Malfoy in his place that makes me intrigued.

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Me thinks Blair could do the job. And don't get me started on Tootie. Sad to say, but I had the sheet music to the theme song of this show and played it on the piano. Along with MASH and Archie Bunker.

And that theme song. I have a deep-seated problem with the logic there. I mean, yes, absolutely, if you hear 'em from your brother, you better clear 'em with your mother. Especially if you're Ron, 'cause God knows what Fred'n'George told him! And, yes, he had indeed better get 'em right. But how can it possibly help get more accurate information if you call her late at night?!? She'll be sleepy and irritable!

explanation? (btw, there's no need to be ashamed. We all have bad fanfic fetishes. For example: I went through a stage of Marauder time-travel fics, although 99% of them get abandoned...*shakes head wistfully*)

Oh, no, believe me, it's not a fanfic fetish, and theres every reason to be ashamed.

The title mocks the logo of a disrespected American TV Sitcom I don't want to name just yet, from the early 1980s.

I'm not saying it was bad -- it frequently, in its third, fourth and fifth years, was very good -- but I am saying it was a spin-off of Diff'rent Strokes, the sitcom that unleashed Gary Coleman on an unwilling world.

You can't possibly have seen it, so even if I named names, it would remain incomprehensible.

Yeah, I'm afraid this is one only a certain sub-set of my american friends will get.

The whole gag is just teh notion of crossing over Harry Potter with a particularly disrespected American TV Sitcom, about a group of girls in a posh American "Private School" -- you lot, I think, would say "Public School" -- called "Eastland." (The school, not the programme.) The thing is that there are character interactions there that would really be a hoot.

So those Americans who recognize the font and layout are simultaneously cringing with shame, and whistfully imagining rich, snooty, very lovely Blair Warner telling Draco Malfoy, "Oh, please. My father could buy your father out of petty cash, and still have enough left to by me another car!"

But there are characters who will never meet who would be so entertaining together that you ache to see them. Or, well, I do.

Detective Lenny Briscoe, from Law and Order being sent to teh Brownstone to interview Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin. Frank McPike, the hero's caustically sarcastic boss from the American crime series Wiseguy having to be Fox Mulder's supervisor in The X-Files.

So when I see someone's written a crossove between the Potterverse and The West Wing, I have to go take a look. And when I did, I found this, and tell me it isn't dandy fun:

OMG, yes, Mrs. Garrett! Right, then, Seventh-year fic, Edna Garrett's the new Potions Mistress, and head of Gryffindor, so she can sit a reluctantly-returned Harry down to talk to him about the importance of sharing his feelings, and not shutting out his friends...

Well, being an Amercian girl that grew up druing the 80's, I certainly know which show you mean - my older sis and I loved it and never missed an episode! Ashamed? Pshaw!

A roller skating Tootie through the halls of Hogwarts. With Jo's attitude, I think she'd be great at Quidditch and intimidate the hell outta Draco and his goons - or Crabbe and Goyle may go for her, actually, much to her great annoyance!I wonder how Blair and Lavendar, both snobbish blondes, would size each other up?

rich, snooty, very lovely Blair Warner telling Draco Malfoy, "Oh, please. My father could buy your father out of petty cash, and still have enough left to by me another car!"